micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

Toilet paper is just the stupidest item in existence.

Consider a bidet. It could help cut down your toilet paper usage.

I'm not really a bike person (yet, anyways)

Have a look at cargo bikes, they've diversified greatly over the last ~5 years. For example, there's models now that are smaller than a regular bike, way more nimble than a regular cargo bike, but still quite versatile if you don't need to carry three children and the kitchen sink, eg yoonit (they're a German company, not sure about availability elsewhere).

Wow, congrats on the walking! Sad that your car was a write off though. I'm kinda lazy and usually end up using my bike as a replacement for walking sometimes... even when I probably shouldn't 😅

I've found that doing more frequent, smaller shopping trips really helps with keeping fresh food at home

There's a lot more to the equation that just the battery. In term of over all pollution they're far better than a gas car. (220g CO2e/km vs 21-25g CO2e/km)

Even if you just paid cash for a car and thus that is sunk pollution we are not counting, not more than 3 years to make up the fuel. If you count the car you already did

Just buy a new battery.

Also, use a conversion kit on your existing bike.

Either way, less harmful than a car.

If you're worried about the pollution or carbon footprint of an ebike, you're wasting your time. Or a sea lion.

Ebike: $2k

Conversion kit if you already have a bike: $500

Car: $10k/year

I got mine for $700 and conversion kits are even cheaper (also, better). They don't have to be expensive. There's also just regular bicycles: Even though I have an ebike, I still regularly ride my hybrid for fun, exercise, or if I'm just not in a hurry.

Check out the Lectric XP3 - it retails at $999

You can get them on Amazon for less than $500.

Yeah, you truly don't understand that literally billions of people live lives different than yours.

If you live in a city and you don't need a car but still have your life threatened daily by cars you will have a different perspective.

It's nice that you have no issues with bikes. That's like saying, "No I don't mind you eating while I smoke".

EDIT: I truly don't understand how you haters imagine I'm supposed to haul all this stuff around with a bike.

This kind of thinking is why people buy/lease 2 ton F-150s, which only ever get used as a commuter and never really see a day of "hauling goods". Same thinking behind massive crossovers and SUVs, with piss poor gas mileage and horrible road visbility. The only time you'll see those off-road is in a driveway 🤦‍♂️

People who actually NEED to "haul" stuff will own a covered bed like the one you've shown, or even better a panel van/box van!

There are no haters here IMO, you just come across as a troll to me personally... occasionally there's people who want to nuke cars out of existence but they're a minority pretty much

This community is about reducing car dependency, not removing cars as a whole, especially in rural areas where they 110% make sense. A farmer isn't going to replace their pickup with a cargobike, or their tractor with a fietscombine or whatever. In cities where there are more efficient ways to move huge volumes of people around, cars don't make a lot of sense, just contributing to excess noise, traffic, and smog.

The way the US was rebuilt, and continues to build today, makes it difficult to actually have any alternatives to a car. Sprawling neighborhoods make buses not ideal, wide roads make speeding possible so unsafe for cycling, the low density of these areas make them very hard to justify putting train infrastructure nearby.

I think it's a bit shit to be forced into owning a car, with all its requirements (insurance, maintenance, gas etc) instead of having at least some options open to you (bicycle, bus, train, and car)

One is a hobby and one is a form of transportation.

You're the problem.

I like bikes and I like cars but when your sole method of transport is a bike and every single day your life is threatened due to the stupidity, recklessness or inattentiveness of people driving then it really starts forcing you to be more and more anti cars.

It would be fine if people could drive in a safe, predictable manner like they should but they can't, saving an extra ten seconds on their journey is more important than another road users safety and well being more often than not.

Not saying that the majority of cyclists are any better however, particularly casual cyclists. They will go through red lights, ride on pavements and generally cause a fucking nuissance of themselves by also not riding predictably and within the road laws. This in turn can annoy drivers causing them to in turn endanger cyclists lives further.

It's an endless cycle perpetuated by the fact that most people can't follow the basic rules of the road for their particular vehicle and thus move in a predictable and safe manner.

I think a lot of the hostility towards cars comes from almost being killed by vehicles on a regular basis.